Pithecanthropus erectus

Noun

Meaning

former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Pithecanthropus genus Pithecanthropus

Hypernyms

hominid

Examples

Shortly after pithecanthropus erectus gained the ascendancy, he turned his attention to the higher-order abstractions. Richard Arnold Epstein

Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins, British science writer Roger Lewin suggests the tone was set by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois, who in the 1890s found remains of Pithecanthropus erectus) on the island of Java. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pithecanthropine pithecanthropoid Pithecanthropus Pithecellobium Pithecellobium dulce Pithecellobium unguis-cati